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The hospitals of the Canarian Health Service will offer Canarian menus adapted to each patient, with traditional dishes and local products
Cooking can also be a form of company. On the occasion of Canary Islands Day, The public hospitals of the Canarian Health Service will prepare this Saturday, 30 of May, special menus for admitted people, with the purpose of bringing the celebration closer to those who will spend the day in a health center. It won't be a typical party, but a discreet and significant way to bring to the hospital a recognizable fragment of the gastronomic memory of the islands.
The initiative starts from a simple idea, but with a strong symbolic load: that the ranch, el to remember, the mojo, the sancocho, the watercress stew, the cheese, the sweet potato, the wrinkled potato, banana or palm honey also have the ability to humanize a hospital stay. In this case, The Canarian culinary tradition is incorporated into the kitchen services of public centers, always under clinical and nutritional criteria, with menus adapted to the medical guidelines of each patient.
This adaptation is one of the central elements of the proposal. The dishes have been designed taking into account specific pathologies and needs, with options for people with diabetes, hypertension, low fat diets, astringent diets or other therapeutic indications. The hospital kitchen, usually marked by dietary precision, thus incorporating an emotional and cultural dimension without giving up its main function: to care.
In the province of Las Palmas, he Insular-Maternal and Child University Hospital Complex will serve a menu with Canarian ranch as the first and fish sancocho as the second., accompanied by red mojo, pella de remember, sweet potato and parboiled potatoes. Dessert will be banana, one of the most recognizable products of the island pantry.
He University Hospital of Gran Canaria Doctor Negrín will offer Canarian ranch or beef soup as first courses, and pork chops, smeared fish with coriander or ropa Vieja vegetables with wrinkled potatoes as seconds. To finish, flan con bienmesabe, in versions with and without sugar.
In Lanzarote, he Doctor José Molina Orosa University Hospital will join the celebration with a millet soup with a touch of gofio, cilantro and olive oil, followed by wrinkled potatoes with mojo and cherne in adobo. The chosen dessert will be bienmesabe canario.
He Fuerteventura General Hospital will propose watercress stew, goat meat in sauce with majorero cheese and gofio pellets, plus Mari Pepa and banana cake. For special diets, the menu will be adapted with watercress stew, onion fish and custard or papaya as dessert.
In the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, he Our Lady of Candelaria University Hospital He has prepared watercress stew with gofio, rabbit in salmorejo with wrinkled black potatoes and natural papaya. A combination that refers directly to the domestic kitchen, festive and rural of the islands.
He Canary Islands University Hospital will have a broader proposal: egg broth or pumpkin cream; Potas in sauce with wrinkled potatoes, Lanzarote sweet potato and gofio pella; as well as alternatives such as ribs with potatoes and pineapple in cilantro mojo or stewed cod for therapeutic diets. There will also be a vegetarian option with banana omelet, and desserts such as gofio mousse, carrot and banana jelly.
He University Hospital of La Palma will serve chickpeas, onion loin with stewed sweet potatoes and gofio pella, and custard with cookies for dessert. In The iron, Our Lady of the Kings Hospital will offer chicken soup, canary stew and frangollo.
Finally, he Our Lady of Guadalupe Hospital, In La Gomera, will celebrate Canary Islands Day with watercress stew and soft cheese, cod with wrinkled potatoes and sweet potatoes accompanied by cilantro mojo, and roasted milk with palm honey. Besides, During breakfast, Gomero sweets with chocolate will be served..
Beyond the list of dishes, the initiative makes for interesting reading: Canarian cuisine does not only belong to restaurants, to pilgrimages or to family tables. It can also enter spaces where life becomes most vulnerable.. In that context, a special menu does not cure, but accompanies; does not replace treatment, but it improves the experience; does not turn the hospital into a party, but it introduces a form of belonging. And so, on Canary Islands Day, it also has value.
